In fall 2018, Only a Game, NPR's sports radio show, hired me to travel to Sauk Rapids, Minn. to record reporter Tal Pinchevsky's interview with Austin Howard and his parents. Austin, born in Haiti, had been adopted by the Howard family in 2010 after the devastating Haitian earthquake. Once in Sauk Rapids, Austin took to snow, ice, skates and hockey. This is his story.